The US Presidential Elections and the Future of EU Strategic Autonomy

The 2024 US presidential election is expected to be the most consequential in recent history for the European Union. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has promised to reduce America's military support to Ukraine and to raise tariffs on virtually all foreign imports to the US. Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee, is expected to be more committed to a multilateral, rule-based international order. However, even a Democratic administration is likely to be more isolationist and protectionist than in recent years.

Two days after the November 5 elections, we will unpack the consequences from a European perspective. As is the tradition of IEP@BU, our focus will be on how European policymakers should and could react to the US election outcome.

Franco Bruni, is a professor emeritus at Bocconi University and president of ISPI, Istituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale.

Gianluca Passarelli, is a Full Professor in Political Science, at Sapienza University in Rome. He is the author of Stati Uniti d'Europa (Egea)

Graziella Romeo, is an Associate Professor at Bocconi University where she teaches comparative public law.

Majda Ruge is a senior policy fellow with the Wider Europe programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations, based in Berlin.  Before joining ECFR, she spent three years as a fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute/SAIS at the Johns Hopkins University. She has twice testified as an expert witness at hearings of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the Western Balkans.

Thomas J. Schoenbaum is  the Harold S. Shefelman Professor of Law at the University of Washington in Seattle. He is also Research Professor of Law at George Washington University in Washington DC. He is a practicing lawyer, admitted in several U.S. states and before the Bar of the Supreme Court of the United States. 

please, read Thomas J. Schoenbaum's most recent Policy Brief here: Policy Brief - Bidenomics Versus Maganomics on Trade Law: Pick Your Poison 

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